Quotes About Hockey

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.

It's been said that, while growing up, I ate meals with my skates on. It's true.

I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

I really wanted to play hockey. My mom thought figure skates looked easier to use, so she put me in the learn-to-skate program.

My family members were always there and I was very fortunate for that I mean, I played hockey growing up. That was the sport everyone in Charlestown played back then, and I had skates and the equipment, but I was growing so fast, it became hard to afford new stuff every year. But hockey was it for me.

My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It's a bit of a mess to watch!

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

I started ice-skating when I was about 12 or 13 and I was selected in the Australian team for ice hockey. I met my wife at St Moritz Ice Skating about 1955.

I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.

In Japan, skating is like NHL hockey in Canada or baseball in the U.S., so pushing the limit is very enticing. Skating is their lives.

I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.

The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.

If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

I used to coach a lot of hockey. I'd love to be a hockey coach, a bit more of a dramatic role and not comedic. I would go back to my hockey roots, that would be fun.

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

We all love to see excellence as a fan, and I am a fan now watching excellence in the Rangers net.

He shoots....He scores!

And she actually preferred watching hockey with that stupid blue light the American television stations were using to help their viewers locate the puck. Trust the Americans not to realize that knowing the position of the puck was the whole point of the game.

I played hockey, as most girls who go to convent schools in Ireland do, as well as table tennis and badminton - all the rock 'n' roll sports.

Whenever I go back home, I make sure I can attend a Blue Jackets game.

When I was younger, to be honest, watching Bo Jackson, I dreamed of playing both sports. But as I got older, the opportunities were much better in hockey than baseball.

For a family to have five kids and to have emigrated from the West Indies, my father from Jamaica and my mother from Montserrat - it's not easy to provide for five kids let alone put three kids in AAA hockey, one being a goalie, and put two daughters through university.

Well I still have my Patrick Roy jersey from when I was a kid, so he'll always be my favorite.